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Clifford Chance Offices
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NEW YORK, NY 10019-6131
NEW YORK
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Ms Susan Burkhardt
Position
Susan Burkhardt is a partner in Clifford Chance’s Funds and Investment Management group, based in New York. Susan Burkhardt’s practice focuses on the formation of, and ongoing advice to, various types of private investment funds, accounts and structures across strategies, with a primary focus on credit and private equity.
Over the course of her career Susan has advised on the legal and commercial aspects of new fund product launches, including funds-of-one, separately managed accounts, flagship and overflow accounts, and customized and strategic multi-strategy arrangements, including developing of terms, addressing marketability considerations, conducting cost-benefit analyses, and managing structuring issues, product documentation, and negotiations with leading institutional investors across the globe.
Education
Georgetown University (SFS) 2008
University of Sussex (LLB) 2009
University of Law (LPC) 2010
Joined Clifford Chance 2011
Admitted as a solicitor in England & Wales 2013
Licensed as a Legal Consultant in New York 2019
Partner since 2021
Admitted as an Attorney-at-Law in New York 2022
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Transport > Aviation and air travel: finance
- Tax > Financial products
- Real estate > Real estate investment trusts (REITs)
- Real estate > Real estate investment trusts (REITs)
- Energy > Energy transactions: oil and gas
- Investment fund formation and management > Mutual/registered/exchange-traded funds
- Healthcare > Service providers
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Real estate > Real estate investment trusts (REITs)
- Finance > Capital markets: global offerings
- Finance > Project finance
Firm Rankings
- Real estate > Real estate investment trusts (REITs)
- Finance > Structured finance: derivatives and structured products
- Finance > Structured finance: securitization
- Finance > Capital markets: global offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: global offerings
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- Finance > Fintech
- Insurance > Insurance: non-contentious
- Tax > International tax
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
- Real estate > Real estate
- Energy > Renewable/alternative power
- International Trade > Customs, export controls and economic sanctions
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts: large deals ($500m+)
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate